Mental health as related to achievement motivation in university students

Pages: 1874-1877
Ayesha Khan (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

University students worldwide are at greater risk for mental health problems because of the range of stressors they experience. Hence the present paper aims to analyze the connection between mental health and achievement motivation of university students. Mental health is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Achievement motivation is a desire to attain a high standard of excellence and to accomplish the unique objective. The performance or achievement of any individual will depend upon his/her desire to achieve. For the purpose of this study 100 university students including males and females were randomly selected from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Mental Health Inventory (MHI) developed and standardized by Jagdish and Srivastava (1983) and Achievement Motivation (n-Ach) Scale developed by Deo and Mohan (1985) were used in the present study. Pearson correlation coefficient test was used to analyze the data. Result revealed a statistically significant correlation between mental health and achievement motivation of university students.